Fat won a competition to design a two storey building as part of the Paradise Street Development Area scheme in Liverpool city centre. The Pavilion will be built within the newly renovated Church Yard Arcade.

The design introduces an intriguing and delightful new building into the Church Yard space, using references that include ornamental and decorative street furniture as well as the tiled and patterned facades of the Victorian buildings of Liverpool. Our approach has been to design a building within a building, distinct from its surroundings and acting as a gateway or landmark to the new development.

The facade is expressed as a decorative tiled screen and the series of facets along it alter the buildings interior spaces and provide niches for seating and views into Church Yard from the first floor café and ground floor retail units. Shop fronts are as large as possible and all windows are tall and vertical in aspect. Either ends of the ‘screen’ diminish to lower points to make a comfortable junction between the arcade and the pavilion. At the south end a sense of activity from the café terrace is visible into the arcade below.

Completion date: August 2008